A Play With Traditions by Ingfrid Breie Nyhus

"A Play with Traditions - interpreting and performing between folk and pianism" is an artistic research doctorate project by pianist Ingfrid Breie Nyhus, at the Norwegian Programme of Artistic Research & the Norwegian Academy of Music 2011-2016. Ingfrid Breie Nyhus is a performer within classical and contemporary interpretation and folk musical tradition. In this project, she explored musical possibilities in the tension field between art music's and folk music's performance traditions. She investigated similarities and differences in the traditions, and let them intertwine in her piano playing. This exposition is the reflection of the project, on artistic processes, contexts and considerations.

A PLAY WITH TRADITIONS // PART I // PROJECTION

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«the past should be altered by the present
as much as the present is directed by the past»
T. S. Eliot1

Projection

Tradition is past and future. To be a performer in a tradition is to take part in using old materials, attitudes and activities; to choose something to repeat, and from there to illuminate and rotate into new projections. Tradition is a play of the multitude of all voices. The voices of the past exist in the materials, attitudes and activities. With every new voice, ever new varied aspects and angles are put into play. Tradition is not first of all about repeating, but about how it is carried or driven forward.

«The living present is torn between a past which it takes up and a future which it projects.»

Maurice Merleau-Ponty2

«[Tradition is] the power to forget origins and to give to the past not a survival, which is the hypocritical form of forgetfulness, but a new life, which is the noble form of memory.»
Maurice Merleau-Ponty3

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